posted Mar 23, 2011 10:28 PM by Peter Brusoe
The Mayor of the District of Columbia extended Nation's Capital DeMolay with a proclamation on the occasion of our 92nd Anniversary. A copy of the proclamation can be found at the bottom of this page.
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posted Mar 23, 2011 10:21 PM by Peter Brusoe
DeMolay International is doing a search for a new DeMolay to serve as the model on several new promotional posters.
The instructions are pretty simple, but you can read about the entire program here:
1) Take 1-3 digital photos (head shots from different angles).
2) Make sure photos are in “jpeg” or “jpg” format and less than 125K each.
3) Send photos with age and contact info to DeMolay International at demolay@demolay.org.
4) Include the words “model search” and our jurisdictional name in the subject line
(example: Model search – Nation's Capital DeMolay).
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posted Mar 15, 2011 11:26 AM by Peter Brusoe
2011-2012 Term Plan: Nation’s Capital DeMolay
Chad Reichard, JMC
March 2011:
12:
Grand Master’s Class and Installation of Officers
Location: Scottish Rite Center
26:
Devotional Day or Recognition of DeMolay’s Martyrdom
Location: Grand Lodge Day of
Thanksgiving
April 2011:
16:
Prospect Party
Location: Washington Nationals Park
(vs. Brewers)
Time: 1:05 p.m. Game
May 2011
8:
No event – Mothers’ Day weekend
14:
New Chapter Institution?
21:
Prospect Party
Location: Paintball/Laser Tag Course
24:
Special Olympics
June 2011
11:
Prospect Party
Location: Six Flags, Largo, MD
TBD:
Beach Trip? (Instead of July)
17:
Scottish Rite Golf Tournament
18:
Initiation of new members
23-26:
DI Session – Grand Rapids, MI
July 2011
4:
Parade, Grand Lodge Hotdog Sale, and Family Fireworks on the Mall
TBD:
Beach Trip? (Instead of June)
23:
Prospect Party
Location: Dave and Buster’s
August 2011
7-13:
Keyman Leadership Conference
Location: Elizabethtown, PA
Goal: Every elected officer from all
chapters and others who have an interest in attending (perhaps reduced cost
too?)
26/27:
Prospect Party/Back to School Night
Location: Mini Golf and Ice Cream
September 2011
9-11:
MATOC
Location: Fairfax, VA
17:
Prospect Party (Family)
Location: BBQ on the Mall, chance to
hangout, see sights, touch football, etc.
24:
Initiation of New Members
October 2011
15:
Prospect Party
Location: Field of Screams Haunted Corn
Maze in Virginia (went there last Halloween, a lot of fun and family oriented)
November 2011
8:
Frank S. Land Day
19:
Prospect Party
Location: Lucky Strike, Chinatown,
DC
December 2011
17:
Family Holiday Dinner, invite prospect families too
Location: Almas Shrine (catered) or
local restaurant
TBD:
Grand Lodge Coat Check
January 2012
14:
Prospect Party
Location: Dave and Busters
February 2012
5:
Prospect Party
Location: Super Bowl Party at Almas
TBD:
Grand Lodge Coat Check
March 2012
10:
Grand Master’s Class and Installation of Officers
Location: Scottish Rite Center
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posted Jul 16, 2010 7:48 AM by Peter Brusoe
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DeMolay Updates For July 13th-16th, 2010
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Greetings!
Last week your editor was caught in a bit of July 4th exhaustion, but fear not, for here is your latest DeMolay Update for Nation's Capital DeMolay.
Please note: we need a solid head count for Hershey Park!
We have a report on some of our 4th of July Activities, an update on a couple of things happening around us, and some events coming up. Enjoy!
Ka-Pow!
Nation's Capital DeMolay
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Hot Dogs = Awesome 4th of July!
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4th of July is an awesome holiday. Not only does it celebrate the greatest country in the world, our freedoms, our liberties, and the promise of the American Dream, but it is also a chance to celebrate being Americans. The Masons of the District of Columbia the Sponsors of DeMolay, also sponsor free hotd ogs after the palisades day Parade. We want to thank Br. Jules Desroches for coming and helping out with expediting all of the Hot Dogs. Thanks to him we fed over 3,000 people with Hot Dogs!
Br. Jules heading up the Hot Dog Operation
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Knights of Pythagoras Annual Meeting
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This past Friday was the Knights  of Pythagoras annual meeting over at the Prince Hall Grand Lodge Building. The Knights of Pythagoras is a wonderful Masonic Youth Organization for young men ages 8-18. Knights of Pythagoras does a number of outstanding programs in the community. This is the second year in a row that a Representative of DeMolay has been invited to be present at their Grand Encampment Session.
Nation's Capital DeMolay is very excited about all of the outstanding programs that Most Venerable Grand Master Knight Sylvester L. Harvey, II did during his term and the amazing leadership that the new Most Venerable Grand Master Knight Kyle Anderson will provide. We look forward to doing a number of exciting community service events and other activities with the Knights this year.
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Northern Virginia Honors Day a great success!
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This past Sunday was the Northern Virginia* Honors Day. It was a great day to honors those who have worked so hard for humanity and DeMolay. Special congratulations to "Dads" William Alexander, Philip Brooks, Brett Hurb, James Norris, and Brad Westerman on their Legion of Honors, to Brs. Drew Buckley, William Hamm, Evan Haskel, Stephen Marsters, Austin Roach, Brandon Schimmel, and Joel Springman on being elevated to the Degree of Chevalier and to "Dad" Lenny Demoranville for receiving his Cross of Honor. We are so excited to see so many of our hard working neighbors from the south be so honored as well as thank them for their support of Nation's Capital DeMolay. "Dad" Wright is still in the process of arranging for our Honors Day which should be sometime in the autumn.
*or as "Dad" Williams says "Least Southern Part of the Commonwealth of Virginia"
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Baseball with the Young Ladies of Job's Daughters and Bobble Head Night!
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This coming Saturday the Job's Daughters (a masonic youth group for young ladies) is hosting a night at the Potomac Nationals this coming Saturday. It's also free bobble head night for the first 1,000 fans. It should be a great time. If you're interested please let "Dad" Brusoe know. We would plan on leaving DC around 4 and heading over to Woodbridge later on in the evening. Also, the first 1,000 fans get bobbleheads!
Now you may be asking yourself "Potomac Nationals, I thought they were the Washington Nationals?" There is this thing called a "Farm Team" So the not so good players play on the "Farm Team" and the Great Players play in the Major Leagues. (Note: even though the Mets are a mediocre sports team, they are not a farm team for the Yankees. The Yankees Farm team Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees could beat the Mets any day of the week)
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Hershey Park July 22nd 2010.
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July 22nd Members of Maryland DeMolay and the Maryland Young Ladies Groups are heading to Hershey Park for a day of fun. Nation's Capital DeMolay is invited to join this group in this trip. If you're interested in attending please contact "Dad" Peter so we can arrange for transportation etc.
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Out of State Conventions that we can still register for.
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There are still two out-of-state Conventions that we can register to attend. Maryland is the weekend of July 30th-August 1st out on the Eastern Shore of MD. This weekend features great food, sports, fun events, and pizza. Cost is $135 per person. (We can arrange transportation.)
The other is New York's State Convention. This is the weekend of August 6th-8th in beautiful Utica, NY. The Cost is $160 includes great food, a dance with the three Masonic Girls Groups, degrees, ritual competitions, sports. (If there is enough interest we can carpool up to the Empire State check out some sites along the way.)
If you think you would be interested in either one of these please let "Dad" Brusoe know so we can start making appropriate plans.
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Prospective Member Event on Capitol Hill 8/13
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As we mentioned a couple of issues ago Naval Lodge #4 has voted to sponsor a new DeMolay Chapter on Capitol Hill. This new DeMolay Leaders Chapter is going to be great and we're really excited about this. To help jump start the DeMolay Leaders Chapter on Capitol Hill*, Naval Lodge #4 is having a BBQ at their Masonic Center. We hope to have a good turn out of current DeMolay to meet with the future brothers. We are also looking for a brother to perform the Ceremony of Light at this event. More details to follow as they are confirmed!
*Note: We don't have a name for the chapter yet, that's for the inaugural class of Brothers to decide. This is just "Dad" Brusoe's shorthand on the strategic plan.
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DeMolay
Leaders of DC
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Statement of Allegiance
This electronic publication acknowledges authority and yields allegiance to DeMolay International, of which Frank S. Land was founder and Wesley D. Thornton is the Grand Master.
Nation's Capital DeMolay is proudly supported by:
The Grand Lodge of Washington, DC.
William R. Singleton-Hope-Lebanon Lodge #7
Hiram Takoma #10
Potomac Lodge #5
Valley of Washington, Orient of the District of Columbia AASR
William R. Singleton Chapter, #4 Royal Arch Masons
Jurisdictional Leadership:
Mike Xie:
Jurisdictional Councilor
Chad Reichard
Deputy Jurisdictional Councilor
Al Smith
Executive Officer
Leonard Proden
Jurisdictional Governor
Alan Gordon, Deputy Executive Officer
Mark Wright, Deputy Executive Officer
Jerry Samet
Executive Officer Emeritus
Kurt J. Hamrock. Executive Officer Emeritus
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Non-Discrimination Clause
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posted Jul 16, 2010 7:45 AM by Peter Brusoe
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Greetings!
 234 Years ago John Adams of the Massachusetts Bay Colony introduced a resolution that the 13 colonies should become the 13 united States of America (It wasn't until the Civil War that the U would become capitalized).
The Continental Congress asked that a written list of grievances be presented and a committee was formed of John Adams of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Roger Sherman of Connecticut and Robert R. Livingston from the Great Colony of New York. Jefferson took the lead on writing and conceptualized the ideas of Locke, Mason, and other enlightenment thinkers into one document that spelled out why these colonies should be free from Great Britain.
Today as you join us at one of the parades, or spend time at the beach with the family, or go on the National Mall to watch fireworks remember the reason why we celebrate this day. Fifty-six men did what they knew to be right in their heart and stood up to tyranny risking their lives, their fortunes, and their families. The struggle for freedom, for liberty, and for justice did not end on July 4th. The mere act of declaring independence was a great one, yet it took the efforts of average citizens at places like Saratoga, Bunker Hill, Yorktown, Chesapeake, Oriskany, Bennington and many other places to secure it. It has taken armed conflict in places as close as Fort Stevens, to as far away as the Middle East and Asia. It has taken average citizens standing up and defending the rights of their fellow Americans, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Martin Luther King, Jr. Cesar Chavez, Kathryn McGee, Ed Roberts, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and people too numerous to mention in one email. Most importantly, it is people like you who go out and help one another, participate in the democratic process, and act in the spirit of being an American.
Have a great Independence Day!
Nation's Capital DeMolay
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Parade Reminder
DeMolays are asked to come out and support one of our two 4th of July Day Parades either in the Palisades day or the Capitol Hill Parade. Please mark your calendars. Both parades occur on July 4th.
Those attending Palisades Day should be there around 10AM to start cooking.
Those attending Capitol Hill should be there around 8:45 at Dukin Donuts 801 Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast.
SSL Hours will be given for both events.
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The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen united States of America
 (Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776)
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.
To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas
Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
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posted Jul 16, 2010 7:43 AM by Peter Brusoe
DeMolays are asked to come out and support one of our two 4th of July Day Parades either in the Palisades day or the Capitol Hill Parade. Please mark your calendars. Both parades occur on July 4th.
Those attending Palisades Day should be there around 10AM to start cooking.
Those attending Capitol Hill should be there around 8:45 at Dukin Donuts 801 Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast.
SSL Hours will be given for both events.
Save the Date: Northern Region Honors Day July 11th.
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The Northern Region of Virginia DeMolay is conferring a number of honors on July 11th, 2010 at 2:00PM. While the honorees for 2010 need to be approved by DeMolay International next week we can make plans to stop by and celebrate as our brothers honor their Chevaliers and Legion of Honor Recipients.
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Hershey Park July 22nd 2010.
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posted Jun 23, 2010 7:46 AM by Peter Brusoe
One problem that we have is your jurisdictional staff has phone numbers that are often long distance for most of our members. No worries! Nation's Capital DeMolay now has a new phone number of (571) DEM-OLAY or in numbers (571) 336-6529.
Really neat, huh?
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posted Jun 21, 2010 8:19 AM by Peter Brusoe
Nation's
Capital DeMolay Wishes Everyone a Very Happy Father's Day!
Greetings!
Mark Twain once
said "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly
stand to have
the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how
much the
old man had learned in seven years."
During our teen years we
sometimes take our fathers for granted. As DeMolays we are challenged
to be better sons. We've sent a lot of notices about events at Supreme
Council this week, about who got elected, and who we have honored with
the Hall of Fame. Yet, we would be remiss to not take a momment and say
"Thank you." Thank you to our own fathers, (mine is the smartest and
kindest man I know) To our Grand Fathers, to our uncles, and to those
who are father figures in our lives.
We also want to thank all
of our adult volunteers who are fathers for the work they do as fathers
in building a better country. Specifically, "Dad" Gordon, "Dad" Smith,
"Dad" Proden, and "Dad" Collins. Thank you for being such great
fathers.
I want to close with a thought that one of our Masonic
Supporters has on his desk "WWDD?" Or What Would Dad Do?
Thank
you and happy father's day!
Peter W. Brusoe
Deputy Exeuctive
Officer writing from Dallas, TX.
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posted Jun 19, 2010 9:26 PM by Peter Brusoe
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updated Jun 21, 2010 8:14 AM
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So How International is DeMolay International? "Dad" Brusoe is kind of tired when it comes to writing blog posts (and needs to catch a taxi at 4AM to get the guys to the airport) so we'll give you some pictures and some captions of what's going on and who we're meeting with.  This above picture is Mike and Chad with the Delegate from Romania This is DeMolay Italy, and their Executive Officer of the Year, Luciano Critelli. Many Congratulations! Chad and MIke with the National Grand Master of DeMolay Brazil. Chad with Andrew Roberts the 40th State Master Councilor of the Great State of New York. Mike and Mike Hernandez the Deputy State Master Councilor of New York. (and from "Dad" Brusoe's home chapter!)
This is Chad and Mike with Chris Benedetti of DeMolay International.
Chad with Ryan (44th ICS) and Michael Benedetti (44th IMC) and
Mike.
The Guys with the Supreme Worthy Advisor (acting)
Doug Maxwell the head of Shriners Hospital International with our guysThe Guys with Mayor Lappert, one of our Honorees for the Hall of Fame and Current Mayor Of Dallas, TX |
posted Jun 19, 2010 8:23 AM by Peter Brusoe
Nation's Capital DeMolay is pleased to congratulate Br.
Michael Benedetti of Georgia on being elected the 44th International Master Councilor of the Order of DeMolay. Br.
Benedetti has the pleasure of joining the Board of Directors of DeMolay International and voting the interests and concerns of the young men on the Board. He will also be the executive head of the DeMolay Congress. Br. Benedetti is the third international master councilor from Georgia.
Br. Ryan Graizer of Nebraska was elected Congress Secretary. More to come!
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